New MacBook prices for SA

bwana said:
Flash drives? Cameras? Dongles? USB is also still the quickest way to transfer to iPods/iPhones/iPads.
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I didn't realise flash drives were still a thing.
You could well be right about Camera's though. I haven't used a non phone camera in a very long time. I would assume students would be using their cameras on their phones too. Unless they're photography students, in which case a Pro would be a better choice
 
JStrike said:
I didn't realise flash drives were still a thing.
You could well be right about Camera's though. I haven't used a non phone camera in a very long time. I would assume students would be using their cameras on their phones too. Unless they're photography students, in which case a Pro would be a better choice
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They may well do so but not all phones are iPhones and not everyone can, or wants to, use the cloud to transfer a bunch of photos to their computer.
 
JStrike said:
Crazy talk :)
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I use handoff/Personal Hotspot/Airdrop all the time between my iPhone and Mac but it's finicky as hell and I regularly have to pull out a USB cable to get the job done.
 
bwana said:
I use handoff/Personal Hotspot/Airdrop all the time between my iPhone and Mac but it's finicky as hell and I regularly have to pull out a USB cable to get the job done.
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Really? Normally by the time I even get to my Mac, all my photo's are already there
 
JStrike said:
Really? Normally by the time I even get to my Mac, all my photo's are already there
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I wouldn't have to make sure I carried a USB cable if it was reliable. AirDrop never works outside of a wifi network and it's a 50/50 chance that Personal Hotspot will work when I need it to.
 
bwana said:
I wouldn't have to make sure I carried a USB cable if it was reliable. AirDrop never works outside of a wifi network and it's a 50/50 chance that Personal Hotspot will work when I need it to.
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Why do you need to AirDrop your photo's. Doesn't iCloud sync them?
 
JStrike said:
Why do you need to AirDrop your photo's. Doesn't iCloud sync them?
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90% of the photos I take with my phone are digital notes - no need to sync them to the cloud. The other 10%, and 100% of the video I shoot, I usually need immediately when I'm in-the-field. Why would I want to wait for those photos and videos to sync to the cloud when I should be able to transfer them quickly - far quicker than uploading them to the cloud - to my laptop.

I'm also frequently asked if I'll whatsapp clients a few pics during a job so they can push them out via social networking. AirDropping is great for that… when it works.
 
bwana said:
90% of the photos I take with my phone are digital notes - no need to sync them to the cloud. The other 10%, and 100% of the video I shoot, I usually need immediately when I'm in-the-field. Why would I want to wait for those photos and videos to sync to the cloud when I should be able to transfer them quickly - far quicker than uploading them to the cloud - to my laptop.

I'm also frequently asked if I'll whatsapp clients a few pics during a job so they can push them out via social networking. AirDropping is great for that… when it works.
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Fair enough. But surely an adapter would suffice for those that need it? For those that don't, it just takes up extra space
 
I would have expected for 27 Grand, to get a Core i7 with 16GB RAM and a Nvidia Graphics Card.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over priced for those specs :wtf:
 
JStrike said:
Fair enough. But surely an adapter would suffice for those that need it? For those that don't, it just takes up extra space
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The 11" Air has a similar footprint and has those ports. Sure it weighs 150g more but I'm sure the weight of the USB-C VGA Multiport or USB-C Digital AV Multiport adapters might make up quite a bit of that difference.
 
The Apple TV is down to R999 if anyone's interested.
 
Pegasus said:
The Apple TV is down to R999 if anyone's interested.
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Where do u see that? it should be doing to $69 =~ R830,01 excluding Core markup. Interestingly I don't see the price changing in iStores here in Sa yet. I asked at a store recently and they were like.. 'yah but its on special for +/- R1.2k currently' ;)
 
krycor said:
Where do u see that? it should be doing to $69 =~ R830,01 excluding Core markup. Interestingly I don't see the price changing in iStores here in Sa yet. I asked at a store recently and they were like.. 'yah but its on special for +/- R1.2k currently' ;)
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bwana already posted.


iStore staff tend to know very little about their products, at least the 20 or so I've interacted with.

Best to check yourself before going to the store.
 
Tjoker said:
How do you justify paying this kind of many for a computer? Apples mark-up is INSANE and yet people buy into the overpriced lifestyle
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.QQ. said:
Marketing/branding/brainwashing, Apple have very successfully created a brand that people want to buy into, no matter the cost, and feel smugly superior about. From a business perspective, it's genius.
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Oh my ****ing goodness.
 
The ports or lack thereof dont bother me. The only port I ever used on my macbook pro, was the usb port to plug my guitar into. I used to own a memory stick. Havent seen it for at least 2 years. I dont care about the hard disk on a laptop. I have a Solaris server and mac mini for files. I dont play games on a laptop. I have windows pc for that. The only specs I care about on a laptop are the ram and the cpu. Since I can afford it, I always buy the max ram spec'd.

Since I have owned my macbook pro, I doubt I will ever buy anything other than a macbook again. Its been many levels above any windows or linux based laptop I ever owned.

However, If Apple start f***ing up the way HP and Dell did , I will switch to another brand :)
 
[video=youtube;9BnLbv6QYcA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA[/video]
 
Wow - R18.5k for a 13" MacBook Air with 256GB SSD, 1.6GHz dual core, 4GB RAM and HD 6000 graphics.

I can't imagine how anyone could think that that's worth buying.
 
Bryn26 said:
Wow - R18.5k for a 13" MacBook Air [-]with 256GB SSD, 1.6GHz dual core, 4GB RAM and HD 6000 graphics[/-].

I can't imagine how anyone could think that that's worth buying.
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That's because you're driven by specs and paper numbers, vs what counts: Build quality, operating system, practicality and size, screen quality, battery life, backlit keyboard and trackpad quality - in no specific order. The overall experience is not determined by specs once they've surpassed a certain level.

Your opinion is without being open minded about what appeals to people who are not specs-obsessed, who are more interested in what I have explained. It doesn't matter about what you could get in a Windows laptop.

Of course, you probably expect Core i7, mid range GPU, 16GB RAM, etc. because that's what you 'could' get to suit your wants/needs. Or, a Windows 'equivalent' Ultrabook with Core i5, 8GB, 256 - 512GB SSD, etc.

You probably also think about your experience with Windows, and how you couldn't bare only 4GB and a >2GHz dual core. There is a significant difference between 4GB on Windows and OS X, particularly over time as Windows tends to slow down.

Go into any Mac thread, and you might find 1% of posts to be negative. The positive posts are by people in various fields, jobs, circumstances. Many contribute quality content to the forum on multiple topics.

I think they know why this stuff is worth buying, mate.

Do not confuse buying into a quality product with the certainty that it's the best all round, with "feeling smugly superior about it", to quote your friend, which I suppose you feel, too.

Once you've accepted the obvious factual differences in quality, and that things are not the 'same', you can then start looking into how OS X differs from Windows, if you want to be truly balanced. If you don't, then do us a favour and spare us of your anti Apple bubble, which I was also in for 95% of my life.
 
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